📔 To go from rags to riches
📋Meaning
To go from being poor to having a lot of money.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Actor Jim Carrey went from rags to riches. At one time, he was living in a van, but he continued to work hard and eventually became one of the highest-paid comedians in the world.”
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📔 tickle the ivories / ivory
📋Meaning
play the piano
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I learned to tickle the ivories from a very young age so I've been dreaming of getting a grand piano for most of my life.
🗣 My grandfather used to tickle the ivories for a living.
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📔 go with the flow
📋Meaning
be relaxed and accept a situation, rather than trying to alter or control it.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Just relax and go with the flow!
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📔 Blow off steam
📋Meaning
If you’re feeling angry, stressed or are experiencing some strong feelings and you want to get rid of them so you feel better again, you will blow off steam by doing something such as exercising to get rid of the stress.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Why is Nick so angry and where did he go?”
“He had a fight with his brother, so he went for a run to blow off steam.”
🗣 "I just needed to walk to blow off steam"
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📔 screw (one's) courage to the sticking place
📋Meaning
To remain bold, resolute, determined, and courageous, especially in the face of possible danger, difficulty, hardship, or adversity. Taken from a line in Shakespeare's Macbeth: "We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail."
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📔(Go) tell it/that to Sweeney!
📋Meaning
dated A scornful or incredulous response to a story or statement that one does not believe or finds ridiculous.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Chester: "You know, my dad used to play basketball with the President when they were both kids." Dave: "Ah, go tell it to Sweeney, Chester! Why do you tell such fibs?"
A: "I bet you I could eat 20 hot dogs in less than half an hour!" B: "Tell that to Sweeney, pal!"A: "I bet you I could eat 20 hot dogs in less than half an hour!" B: "Tell that to Sweeney, pal!"
🗣Yeah, right, like you're related to that famous astronaut. Tell it to Sweeney.
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📔 romp home
📋Meaning
To deftly or easily win a race, contest, or competition. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣With her arch-rival out of commission with a pulled hamstring, the defending champion romped home at the Olympics once again.
🗣Showing their utter superiority on the pitch, the boys in blue look set to romp home to a 6–2 victory.
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📔 shank's nag
📋Meaning
One's legs and feet, used for walking; travel by foot. Also "shanks' nag." A reference to the shank— the lower leg between the knee and the ankle—and the use of ponies or horses for travel.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My bicycle fell apart three miles away from home, so I had to use shank's nag to go the rest of the way.
🗣Unfortunately, with the sedentary lifestyle many lead today, shank's nag has largely become an obsolete mode of travel.
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📔 curse a blue streak
📋Meaning
To use profane language with great rapidity and intensity.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My dad cursed a blue streak after he found out I'd put a dent in his car.
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📔 send a shiver down (one's) spine
📋Meaning
To cause an intense feeling of excitement, exhilaration, nervousness, or fear in someone.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The way that sonata swells always sends a shiver down my spine.
🗣It sent a shiver down my spine when Dorothy gave me such an amorous look.
🗣Can we get out of here? This creepy old house is sending a shiver down my spine!
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📔 bear fruit
📋Meaning
to yield a positive result
to produce a desired result
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 You've been going to the library everyday for the past two months so I really hope your studying bears fruit this semester.
🗣 We were pleased to see that our management training program bore fruit when staff retention and productivity both increased by more than 50% over the past year.
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📔 take the wind out of someone's sails
📋Meaning
frustrate someone by unexpectedly anticipating an action or remark.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was all ready to tell him that the relationship was over when he greeted me with a big bunch of flowers - that took the wind out of my sails.
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📔 better late than never
📋Meaning
doing something late is better than not doing it at all.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Sorry I was late for the meeting today; I got stuck in traffic.”
Answer: “That's okay; better late than never.”
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📔 bad hair day
📋Meaning
a bad day in general; a day when many things seem to go wrong
a day when you can't style your hair well and this makes you feel unattractive
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Yesterday, my mom was having a bad hair day so I decided to show her my report card this evening.
🗣 Avoid the boss if you can. He's having yet another bad hair day and is taking his frustrations out on everyone.
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📔 by stealth
📋Meaning
In an undetected way; silently and secretly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The cat burglar entered the office by stealth, and the only evidence he was there was the missing document.
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📔 snow on the mountain
📋Meaning
Silver, grey, or white hair on one's head, as due to aging.
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🗣Sure, there's a bit of snow on the mountain, but I still lead as adventurous a life as I ever have!
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📔 take ill
📋Meaning
To be or become sick or unwell.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I heard your sister has taken ill recently. I hope that it isn't anything too serious?
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📔 with reckless abandon
📋Meaning
With rash, unrestrained impulsiveness, enthusiasm, or zeal.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Ever since my brother got that car for his birthday, he's been motoring around at night with reckless abandon.
🗣The insurgents set upon the town and began firing their weapons with reckless abandon.
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📔at stake
📋Meaning
If something is at stake, it is being risked and might be lost or damaged if you are not successful.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣two lives are at stake.
🗣The tension was naturally high for a game with so much at stake.
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📔 Look like a million dollars/bucks
📋Meaning
If someone tells you that you look like a million bucks, you should take it as a huge compliment because it means you look absolutely fabulous and really attractive.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Wow, Mary, you look like a million dollars/bucks this evening. I love your dress!”
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📔 Break the bank
📋Meaning
To be very expensive.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Taking a week-long vacation would break the bank. There’s no way I could afford to do it.”
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📔 squirrel away
📋Meaning
To hide, save or put things away to use in the future.
To put in a safe or secret place for future use.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 She squirreled away money each month to buy a new car.
🗣 If you're just squirreling away various English learning materials instead of using them, you'll never improve your English.
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📔 bore the pants off
📋Meaning
to be extremely boring or uninteresting to someone else.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Spending the weekend with my in-laws really bored the pants off me.
🗣 Not only do my grandfather's good-old-days stories bore the pants off me but he also tells the same stories over and over again.
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📔 Gain ground
📋Meaning
To become popular, to make progress, to advance.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “As Airbnb gains ground in many cities all over the world, many locals complain that they can no longer find a place to live. Landlords would rather rent their places out to tourists and earn more money.”
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📔 sounding board
📋Meaning
A person or group with whom one discusses an idea, plan, or suggestion in order to evaluate its strengths, acceptability, feasibility, practicality, etc.
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📔 scream (one's) head off
📋Meaning
To scream or yell very loudly and lengthily.
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🗣Suzy screamed her head off when I told her she couldn't have an ice cream cone.
🗣The stadium was packed with fans screaming their heads off for the popular band.
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📔 a spring in (one's) step
📋Meaning
A happy, confident, and enthusiastic mood or manner, as indicated by the carefree way one walks.
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🗣Joe's been walking with a spring in his step ever since he found out he was getting a promotion.
🗣I bet you'll have a spring in your step after I tell you this bit of good news!
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📔 pitch a fit
📋Meaning
To become very or unreasonably angry or upset; to have an outburst of rage, frustration, or ill temper.
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🗣My mom's going to pitch a fit when she sees what happened to the car!
🗣I was so embarrassed when Danny started pitching a fit in the grocery store.
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